The ocean's ability to sequester carbon away from the atmosphere exerts an important
control on global climate. The biological pump drives carbon storage in the deep ocean and …

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are swarming, oceanic crustaceans, up to two inches
long, and best known as prey for whales and penguins–but they have another important …

The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Climate change is driving an expansion of marine oxygen-deficient zones, which may alter
the global cycles of carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and trace metals. Currently, however, we lack a …

Sinking particulate organic carbon out of the surface ocean sequesters carbon on decadal to
millennial timescales. Predicting the particulate carbon flux is therefore critical for …

A carbon budget for the northwest European continental shelf seas (NWES) was
synthesized using available estimates for coastal, pelagic and benthic carbon stocks and …

Microbial plankton respiration is the key determinant in the balance between the storage of
organic carbon in the oceans or its conversion to carbon dioxide with accompanying …

Decreasing concentrations of dissolved oxygen in the ocean are considered one of the main
threats to marine ecosystems as they jeopardize the growth of higher organisms. They also …

In the ocean's major oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), oxygen is effectively absent from sea
water and life is dominated by microorganisms that use chemicals other than oxygen for …

The oceanic biological carbon pump (BCP) regulates the Earth carbon cycle by transporting
part of the photosynthetically fixed CO2 into the deep ocean. Suppressing this mechanism …